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People vs. Antonine B. Saley

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ANTONINE B. SALEY a.k.a. ANNIE B. SALEY, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 121179 | 1998-07-02

D E C I S I O N 

VITUG, J: 

The case before the Court focuses on the practice of some "illegal recruiters" who would even go to the extent of issuing forged tourist visas to aspiring overseas contract workers. These unsuspecting job applicants are made to pay exorbitant "placement" fees for nothing really since, almost invariably, they find themselves unable to leave for their purported country of employment or, if they are able to, soon find themselves unceremoniously repatriated. This Court once described their plight in a local proverb as being "naghangad ng kagitna, isang salop ang nawala." 1 

In this appeal from the 3rd...